Recaps

Anna and Snape parted for the night after discussing the trust binding them, while Dumbledore discovered Anna’s hidden middle name and learned more about what the Sorting Hat had seen in her mind. The chapter ended with the Hat warning that beneath Anna’s admirable ideals, she was cold and empty within.

• Anna told Snape she trusted him because they shared the burden of changing their fates, then wished him good night.
• Anna went to her Slytherin room and reminded herself not to indulge in something she could not touch.
• Dumbledore asked the Sorting Hat what it had seen in Anna’s mind, and the Hat urged him to examine her full name.
• Dumbledore used Aparecium on Anna’s acceptance-letter signature and revealed that her name was Anna Albus Grindelwald.
• The Sorting Hat praised Anna’s compassion and ideals but described her inner self as barren, cold, and silent.

Anna handled important Grindelwald Manor documents during breakfast at Hogwarts and navigated the divide between her supporters and Lucius Malfoy’s faction. She then visited Lily at the Gryffindor table, reassuring her that she was safe in Slytherin.

• Snape found Anna reviewing enchanted documents at the Slytherin table, and Dumbledore watched her work through breakfast.
• Anna returned the completed documents to Grindelwald Manor and stored the papers that needed more consideration.
• Anna exchanged polite greetings with Lucius Malfoy while the Slytherin table remained divided between their factions.
• Anna noticed Lily at the Gryffindor table, and Snape declined to go with her.
• Anna teased Lily by pretending to be upset, then laughed and reassured her that no one in Slytherin dared bully her.

Anna, Lily, and Snape made it to their first Transfiguration lesson, where Anna admired Professor McGonagall in her tabby cat form. James Potter and his friends arrived late, and the story left them beginning class under McGonagall’s stern watch.

• Anna and Lily left breakfast with Snape to find their first classroom, while James Potter suggested using his family's Invisibility Cloak to get back at Anna.
• Snape guided Anna and Lily to Transfiguration, where Anna chose a seat near the tabby cat on Professor McGonagall’s desk.
• Anna explained to Lily that she wanted to read useful books in the library and preferred wild cats to house cats.
• James Potter, Sirius, Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew arrived late, and McGonagall transformed from a tabby cat to reprimand them.
• Professor McGonagall began the students’ first Transfiguration lesson.

Anna impressed Professor McGonagall in Transfiguration before Dumbledore summoned her to the Headmaster’s Office to look into the Mirror of Erised. The mirror showed Anna’s manor filled with people she knew, but not Anna herself.

• Anna turned a match into a silver needle, earning Slytherin five points, and Lily and James Potter’s group also completed the transformation.
• Professor McGonagall told Anna that Dumbledore was waiting for her in the Headmaster’s Office.
• Anna entered the office and agreed to look into the Mirror of Erised.
• Anna saw a gathering at Grindelwald Manor, where Dumbledore and her father were fighting Voldemort, but she could not find herself in the mirror.

Dumbledore questioned Anna about her origins, and she revealed that Grindelwald created her alchemical body and that her soul entered it by chance. His disapproval of the forbidden magic behind her creation made Anna question whether she had any place in the world, and her distress triggered another magical outburst.

• Dumbledore tested Anna with the Mirror of Erised and asked about her unknown parents after hearing her mention her father.
• Anna told Dumbledore that she was born in a laboratory at Nurmengard and that her father was Gellert Grindelwald.
• Anna explained that Grindelwald had created her body but had failed to create a soul; her soul had entered it by chance through the River Styx.
• Dumbledore objected that creating an alchemical body was forbidden Dark Magic, and Anna took his words as confirmation that she should never have existed.
• Anna broke down as doubts about her identity and place in the world overwhelmed her, and her magic surged into another outburst.

After Anna suffered a magic outburst following her meeting with Dumbledore, Snape hurried to the Hospital Wing and gave her the Soul Stabilizing Potion. He left her drawing in her magic again, though she remained unconscious and fragile.

• Lily and Snape heard that Anna had been taken to the Hospital Wing after a magic outburst, and Snape rushed there with the potion North had given him.
• Snape found Dumbledore remorsefully speaking beside Anna, who lay unconscious with chaotic magic still surging around her.
• Snape poured the Soul Stabilizing Potion into Anna's mouth, and the magic slashed his hand before Anna instinctively began drawing in her unruly magic.
• Snape brushed away Anna's tear as Madam Pomfrey prepared to treat his bleeding hand.

After a magical outburst left Anna unconscious, she woke in the Hospital Wing and wondered whether the blood in her hair belonged to Grindelwald. Lily and Snape visited her, and Lily told her Dumbledore had left Hogwarts while Snape stayed behind with her.

• Anna remembered meeting the god of death at her parents’ grave in her previous life and promising to live a good life.
• Anna woke in the Hospital Wing, cut off a bloodstained lock of hair, and stored it in a crystal vial.
• Lily and Snape arrived, and Lily urged Anna to rest while Snape scolded her for wasting her strength.
• Lily told Anna that Dumbledore had left Hogwarts, Slytherin students had waited outside the Hospital Wing, and Gryffindor students had blown up cauldrons in Potions Class.
• Lily left Anna alone with Snape, who refused to explain his Potions notes because Anna had already learned from the Prince family.

Anna told Snape that the Mirror of Erised showed the people she cared about in the future, but not herself, and realized she feared she might not remain in this world. Gellert Grindelwald arrived and reassured her that she was wanted and would always be his family, while Snape left the Hospital Wing still suspecting she was hiding something.

• Anna and Snape exchanged questions about her magical outburst and his injured hand, but neither revealed everything.
• Anna told Snape that the Mirror of Erised showed many people she cared about, including people from the future, but not herself.
• Anna realized that her contract with death made her fear she could not stay in this world, which explained why she had excluded herself from the mirror's future.
• Gellert Grindelwald arrived with Dumbledore, checked Anna for lasting harm, and reassured her that she was not forbidden and would always be his family.
• Dumbledore asked Snape to leave and return the next day, and Snape departed while wondering what Anna was hiding.

Snape returned to the Slytherin Common Room after Anna’s magical outburst, while Grindelwald and Dumbledore visited her in the Hospital Wing. After Anna secretly listened through her Two-Way Mirror, the two men walked by the Black Lake and discussed Anna’s origins and her leadership of the Acolytes.

• Snape told the Slytherin students that Anna was recovering and needed two more days in the Hospital Wing, then returned to his dormitory.
• Dumbledore apologized to Anna, who said her magic had run wild because she had been thinking too much.
• Anna asked Grindelwald how he had left Nurmengard, then urged him and Dumbledore to talk in the Headmaster’s Office while she rested.
• After the men left, Anna used her Two-Way Mirror to listen as Dumbledore invited Grindelwald to walk by the lake.
• Dumbledore asked whether Anna had been born from Grindelwald’s obsession, and Grindelwald said he recognized her as a person with a life of her own.
• Dumbledore challenged Grindelwald over letting eleven-year-old Anna take over the Acolytes and risk ending up imprisoned like him.

Grindelwald explained to Dumbledore that Anna was leading the Acolytes toward peaceful coexistence between wizards and Muggles, and defended her choices at Hogwarts. After Dumbledore asked why Grindelwald had named her Anna, Grindelwald ended the conversation and returned to Nurmengard; two evenings later, Anna visited Dumbledore and met Fawkes.

• Grindelwald told Dumbledore that Anna was bringing wizards and Muggles together through the Acolytes and that he was proud of her.
• Dumbledore questioned whether Anna was too young for the responsibility and asked if Grindelwald knew she had confronted Voldemort’s followers at the Hogwarts feast.
• Grindelwald urged Dumbledore to trust Anna and suggested he speak with the young people who had chosen to follow her.
• Dumbledore asked Grindelwald why he had given Anna her name, but Grindelwald cut off Anna’s Two-Way Mirror and left for Nurmengard.
• Two evenings later, Anna visited the Headmaster’s Office, where Fawkes perched on her shoulder and Dumbledore told her that the phoenix liked her.

Anna visited Dumbledore, who said he would support her and help if needed. She asked to call him Daddy, and he agreed, leaving them with a new secret family bond.

• Anna admired Fawkes and asked Dumbledore why he had summoned her.
• Dumbledore told Anna he had spoken with her father and would not stop what she was doing, offering his advice and help.
• Anna asked to call Dumbledore Daddy and, after he hesitated, described her lonely childhood to persuade him.
• Dumbledore agreed that Anna could call him Daddy in private, and she promised to keep it secret.
• Anna hugged Dumbledore good night, and after she left, he wondered whether this was a chance for redemption and thought of Ariana.

Anna considered the Acolytes’ plans for the Dawn Archipelago and the alliances they needed, then noticed someone on a nearby slope as she left the Owlery.

• Anna sent two letters by owl, including an account for her father of her conversation in the Headmaster’s Office.
• Anna reflected on the Acolytes’ fight against Voldemort and the need to learn more about Horcruxes.
• Anna reviewed the Dawn Archipelago’s research centers and the effort to develop a small alchemical teleportation array.
• Anna considered launching two commercial districts and recruiting respected wizarding families to help shield the archipelago from Ministry pressure.
• Anna thought about approaching Abraxas Malfoy, then spotted someone on a slope as she turned to leave.

Anna found Severus Snape practicing flying alone and joined him, helping him overcome his fear and steady his broom. They flew above Hogwarts together, where Snape quietly agreed that the moon was beautiful.

• Anna discovered Severus Snape holding a battered flying broom in a secluded clearing and asked to try it.
• Anna flew briefly, then offered Snape a new broom and persuaded him to practice with her rather than call Lily or Harry Potter.
• Snape struggled to fly, and Anna coached him to relax and not be afraid.
• Anna steadied Snape’s broom until he could control it himself, and they flew high above Hogwarts.
• Anna admired the full moon, and Snape softly agreed that it was beautiful.

Anna and Snape discussed research into the Wolfsbane Potion, including Anna’s theory that werewolf symptoms came from a special virus. After visiting the Hogwarts kitchen for a late-night snack, they saw three people peeking through the door as Anna prepared to leave.

• Anna asked Snape about the progress of the Wolfsbane Potion research, and he said there was no lead on preventing werewolves from transforming.
• Anna explained that tests supported her theory that werewolf symptoms came from a special virus, and she discussed recruiting werewolves into the Acolytes.
• Anna and Snape went to the Hogwarts kitchen, where the House-elves served Anna her preferred fruit, cakes, and lemon honey water.
• Anna learned that Borg had told the House-elves about her tastes, then continued discussing the potion with Snape over their snack.
• As Anna prepared to leave with cakes, three people peeked furtively through the kitchen door.

Anna and Snape left the kitchen after James asked whether she had seen Remus, and she kept Remus’s whereabouts secret. The next day, Snape managed to fly while Anna watched over Lily, then Anna startled him by asking when he would court Lily.

• James, Sirius, and Peter entered the kitchen looking for Remus, whom they believed was in the Hospital Wing.
• Anna and Snape prepared to leave, but James asked Anna whether she had seen Remus; she said she had not seen any other first-years and left without revealing his secret.
• During Flying Class, James impressed Madam Hooch with his flying, while Snape learned to hover and Anna kept close watch over Lily.
• Anna landed beside Snape after Lily had gained confidence on her broom, and the two rested in the shade while watching Lily fly.
• Anna asked Snape when he would start courting Lily, and Snape objected that Lily was only eleven before Anna pointed out that they were all eleven.

After learning that Voldemort knew about her, Anna encountered Bellatrix Black while returning from the Owlery. Bellatrix threatened to use the Cruciatus Curse, but Anna calmly challenged her as James Potter and his friends watched under the Invisibility Cloak.

• Anna replied to Elisa's letter, who had warned her that Voldemort had learned of her existence.
• On her way back from the Owlery, Anna noticed James Potter and his three friends following her beneath a transparent cloak.
• Anna led the four boys to a secluded corridor, then sensed hostile magic nearby and called its hidden user out.
• Bellatrix Black emerged from the shadows and confronted Anna over her views about Pure-bloods and Muggles.
• Bellatrix threatened Anna with the Cruciatus Curse, but Anna remained calm and warned that using an Unforgivable Curse could send Bellatrix to Azkaban.

Anna revealed to Bellatrix that her father was Grindelwald and that Voldemort was a half-blood, then exploited Bellatrix’s fear and unrequited devotion to persuade her to conceal their conversation. Bellatrix left Hogwarts carrying a crystal bottle of silvery memories.

• Anna told Bellatrix that Grindelwald was her father and described Voldemort’s past as a Hogwarts student and his half-blood heritage.
• Anna taunted Bellatrix about her privileged birth, unreturned love for Voldemort, and the danger of him discovering she knew his secret.
• Bellatrix angrily denied that Voldemort would harm her, but her trembling wand and thoughts of the dead Death Eaters revealed her fear.
• Anna offered to help Bellatrix hide their conversation with a Memory Charm, and Bellatrix left Hogwarts with a crystal bottle of memories.

Anna planted a memory in a crystal bottle while manipulating Bellatrix into allowing her to alter her memory, then left her trapped in suspicion. She returned to dinner with Snape, while James Potter and his friends became lost in the dark corridors of Hogwarts.

• Anna placed a memory in a crystal bottle and used an eerie power to guide Bellatrix into letting her alter her memory.
• Anna warned the four students hiding under the Invisibility Cloak that she might cast Memory Charms on anyone who had seen her meeting with Bellatrix, then left.
• James Potter removed the cloak and argued with Sirius, Lupin, and Peter about whether Anna had noticed them; the four then got lost trying to return to the Great Hall.
• Anna returned to the Great Hall and told Snape she had met Bellatrix, hinting that the encounter might have changed the witch's loyalties.
• Anna told Snape that Potter and his friends were lost in a remote corridor, and Snape dismissed Potter as stupid.

Anna brewed a healing potion for Snape and prepared to celebrate Halloween by asking Hogwarts professors for candy. She began the tradition with Lily and Snape, collecting crystallized pineapple from Professor Slughorn.

• Apollyon Pringle found James Potter and his friends in the western corridor, and Professor McGonagall took ten points from Gryffindor for each of them.
• Anna brewed a potion using her blood that could remove the scar on Snape's hand, then stored it in a crystal jar.
• Lucius Malfoy followed Abraxas Malfoy's advice to wait, while Anna's fabricated memories in Bellatrix's mind kept Voldemort from seeking her out.
• Anna invited Lily and Snape to go door to door asking professors for Halloween candy, and they went first to Professor Slughorn's office.
• Slughorn gave Anna crystallized pineapple, and the group set off for the next professor's office.

Anna and her companions collected Halloween treats from Hogwarts professors while Voldemort arrived to meet Dumbledore. After Voldemort left the Headmaster’s Office, Anna confronted him in the corridor by greeting him as Tom Riddle.

• Anna, Lily, and Snape visited professors for Halloween treats, and Professor Flitwick enchanted cakes to dance.
• Anna heard portraits discussing a visitor and sent Lily back to the dormitory before telling Snape that Voldemort was at Hogwarts.
• Anna waited near the Headmaster’s Office, concealed in a Grim Reaper costume, and hid Snape around a corner.
• Dumbledore refused Voldemort the Defence Against the Dark Arts post and the Sword of Gryffindor, so Voldemort left his office empty-handed.
• Voldemort passed Anna on the third-floor corridor, and she greeted him as Tom Riddle.

Anna confronted Voldemort at Hogwarts and confirmed that the Death Contract caused the two of them to instinctively loathe each other. Voldemort left, and Anna went to Dumbledore’s office with a Fizzing Whizzbee password.

• Voldemort drew his wand when Anna greeted him by the name Riddle, and Anna told him she had been waiting for him.
• Anna taunted Voldemort and offered him a Fizzing Whizzbee, while Voldemort sensed the Death Contract’s power and refused the candy.
• Voldemort left without attacking Anna, and she ate the candy he had refused.
• Anna realized the Death Contract had influenced her to despise Voldemort because he had abandoned his name and damaged his soul.
• Snape asked Anna what she had seen, and she said she had confirmed that she and Voldemort could not stand each other.
• Anna called out “Fizzing Whizzbees” to enter Dumbledore’s office.

Snape puzzled over Anna's power to unsettle Voldemort and warned Lucius Malfoy to question what he believed about pure-blood status. Anna returned from the Headmaster's Office with Halloween treats, and Lucius left after she sent Voldemort her regards.

• Snape recalled Anna confronting Voldemort and suspected her right palm was connected to the binding contract that kept her from revealing her past.
• Lucius Malfoy found Snape waiting near the Headmaster's Office and urged him to stand with the pure-blood families as a Prince descendant.
• Snape reminded Lucius that he was a half-blood and warned him that appearances could conceal more than he realized.
• Anna returned with sweets, greeted Lucius, and said she had met Voldemort and looked forward to seeing him again.
• Lucius agreed to pass Anna's regards to Voldemort and walked away.

After Lucius left, Snape reassured Anna that standing beside her was his own choice, while Lily decided to challenge house divisions by bringing Gryffindors to sit at the Slytherin table for the Halloween Feast. Anna welcomed Lily and her nervous companions, seeing their visit as a first step toward improving relations between the houses.

• Anna offered to stay away from Snape and Lily if her friendship with them brought them trouble, but Snape rejected the idea and said he chose to stand beside her.
• Lily told Lilian Strachey that Anna’s house and family ties did not change their friendship or Anna’s opposition to pure-blood ideology.
• Lily proposed that she and Lilian sit at the Slytherin table for the Halloween Feast, then went to recruit others.
• Anna found Lily, Lilian, James Potter, and his friends sitting masked beside her at the Slytherin table.
• Lily insisted that her group stay at the Slytherin table, and Anna agreed despite James and his friends’ nervousness.

Anna used Lucius Malfoy’s objection to her Gryffindor friends dining at the Slytherin table to ask Dumbledore whether students were allowed to visit other houses’ tables. Dumbledore and the house heads confirmed that they were, and Anna left Lucius publicly corrected for his rudeness.

• Lucius noticed Lily and other Gryffindors dining at the Slytherin table and told Anna to send them back to their own house.
• Anna took Lucius to the High Table and asked Dumbledore whether students from different houses could eat together.
• Dumbledore confirmed that students could visit other houses’ tables except during designated start- and end-of-year ceremonies.
• Flitwick, Sprout, McGonagall, and Slughorn each welcomed students from other houses to their tables.
• Anna told Lucius that he had misremembered the rules and implied that his behavior was beneath the Malfoy family’s good breeding.

Anna used the Halloween feast to challenge the divisions between Hogwarts houses, then encouraged Snape to embrace his second chance at life. Lucius returned to Slytherin unsettled, while Snape recognized Anna as the person helping him heal.

• Anna mocked Lucius for meddling, accepted his apology, and gave Halloween candy to the professors.
• Lucius returned to Narcissa feeling isolated and began considering a talk with his father about Anna.
• Anna brought Lily and the others across the house divide, and students from different houses began mingling more openly.
• After the feast, Anna walked with Snape and urged him to enjoy his new school life and make up for past regrets.
• Anna checked Snape's healing hand, and Snape realized that Anna was helping his old wounds fade.